Karla SofÃa Gascón, de First open trans -actor To be nominated for an Oscar, apologized and threw X after several controversial tweets have surfaced.
Gascón, who is currently a competition for the Academy Award for “best actress” after the leading role in the film “Emilia Pérez”, confronted with Backlash for old social media reports about Islam and George Floyd.
In a post of 2020 that was reportedly viewed and translated from Spanish by Variety Magazine, Gascón shared a photo of a Muslim family in a restaurant and wrote: “Islam is great, without any machismo. Women are respected, and when they are respected, they are left behind with a small square hole on their faces to be their eyes to be to be to be To be visible and their mouth, but only if they behave in this way for their own pleasure.
However, this was not the only function of the executor that criticized Islam, as Gascón also proposed in 2020, “until we prohibit religions against European values ​​and violate human rights, such as Islam, under the protection of freedom of worship, will We will not end up with the enormous problem with which we are confronted. “
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Oscar -nominated Karla SofÃa Gascón has dumped the X platform after controversial items have been specified. ((Photo by Medios Y Media/Getty Images))
The artist closed other religions by name and wrote in a post from 2021: “I am so sick of this sh–, of Islam, of Christianity, from Catholicism and all F — ING beliefs of idiots Human rights violation.
In a post from 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd, the performer wrote: “I really think very few people have ever given George Floyd, a drug -addicted Swindler, but his death has again served to show that there are people Are they still regarding black people as monkeys and police officers consider killers. “
The Academy Awards nominated Had also criticized the Oscars in 2021: “More and more the #oscars look like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I watched an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8m. Apart from that, An ugly, ugly gala. “
Since then, Gascón seems to have dumped the X platform and apologized for the controversial statements, narration The Hollywood reporter in Spanish: “I am sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hatred and wrong information to influence neither my family nor I, so at their request I close my account to X.”
The performer also claimed to be “threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed for the point of exhaustion.”
Karla SofÃa Gascón is the first open transactor to be nominated for an Oscar. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
“I want to recognize the conversation about my former reports on social media that have caused pain,” Gascón said in a Netflix statement. “If someone in a marginalized community, I know that this suffering is all too good and I am sorry deep for those I have caused pain. My whole life I have fought for a better world. I believe that light will always triumph about darkness.”
Fox News Digital reached Gascón’s management and did not receive an immediate answer.
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